{"id":1458,"date":"2010-05-27T12:44:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2010-05-26T18:20:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T00:20:13","slug":"a-life-on-two-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/a-life-on-two-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life on Two Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These next few weeks are shaping up to be some of the busiest I&#8217;ve ever had, all relating to riding motorcycles. Let me give you an idea of what&#8217;s in store.<\/p>\n<p>Today I take off on a two-day ride to shoot photos for a story I&#8217;m working on for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridermagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rider magazine<\/a>. I did this ride once last fall but then found out my camera didn&#8217;t shoot in high enough resolution to meet their needs so I&#8217;ll do it again with my new camera.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/BlogPix\/Taylor_Canyon_CO.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Taylor Canyon in Colorado\" \/>Then next week I&#8217;m taking off for a four or five day ride with my friend John. We&#8217;re heading for New Mexico, hoping to spend some time there before the blazing hot weather hits.<\/p>\n<p>On June 12, Judy and I are heading for the Black Hills on vacation. This will coincide, not by accident, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cushmanclubofamerica.com\/calendar\/2010MeetInformation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cushman Club of America&#8217;s 2010 national rally<\/a> in Sturgis, SD. Their theme this year is &#8220;Come play where the big boys play,&#8221; and the visuals of Sturgis engulfed in scooters will be just too good to miss.<\/p>\n<p>The following week I&#8217;ve been planning to do some coverage of the run-up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usacracing.com\/ppihc\" target=\"_blank\">Pikes Peak International Hill Climb<\/a>, culminating with the race itself on June 27. I&#8217;ve been connecting with contestants so I can cover that event through the eyes of someone actually involved.<\/p>\n<p>While I absolutely will do some hill climb coverage, I received a call today from the editor of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridemsta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">motorcycle sport touring magazine<\/a> asking me to go with him to Taos that same week for the Motorcycle Sport Touring Association&#8217;s annual gathering. If I can manage to squeeze it in I guess I&#8217;ll try to run down to Taos in the middle of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s other stuff like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hokaheychallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoka Hey Challenge<\/a> and the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motomarathon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Motomarathon<\/a> event that, if I do any reporting on them, will have to be done secondhand. Hey, I&#8217;m only one guy.<\/p>\n<p>So what have you got going on in June? I hope you&#8217;re going to get out and have some fun, too. Get on that bike and ride!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2010m5d25-My-first-Victory-rides-The-cruisers\" target=\"_blank\">My first Victory rides: The cruisers<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Life is an adventure, and I refuse to live a boring one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These next few weeks are shaping up to be some of the busiest I&#8217;ve ever had, all relating to riding motorcycles. Let me give you an idea of what&#8217;s in store. Today I take off on a two-day ride to shoot photos for a story I&#8217;m working on for Rider magazine. I did this ride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,228,70],"tags":[787,68,162],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-motorcycle-rides","category-motorcycle-touring","category-rides-and-rallies","tag-motorcycle-racing","tag-motorcycle-rally","tag-motorcycle-touring-colorado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}